Eric Weiner Quotes
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
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Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.
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All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.
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In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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I will develop the areas that vote for me, but if you don't vote for me, don't expect anything.
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I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
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My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
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So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.
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The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me.
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I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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What use was it to argue with a little idiot like this? Indeed, peasants never do argue; they use abuse.
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I am not gonna say that a guy's looks make him have to try harder in any way. I don't believe that at all. I think if he is funny, smart and cool, he's all set. Looks are not very important to me.
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The lovers, appearing happy, walk, holding hands. Though it appears everything is perfect, only they know the truth.
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Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything.
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No man succeeds without faith. Whether you call it religious faith or label it something else. I don't feel anything worthwhile is accomplished without it. When you believe there is a Supreme Being guiding the destiny of this universe and that within each of us there is a little part of that Being, then you will have faith in yourself, in your country, in that Supreme Being, and in humanity itself.
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[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.
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It's not what we believe that makes us happy but the act of believing. In anything.
